Tag Archives: Georgia Architecture

Cortelyou-Pressley House, Circa 1890, Marietta

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A two-story light-colored house with black shutters and white trim, featuring a front porch with columns, surrounded by green shrubs and trees.

This home, which originated as a Victorian cottage in 1893, was purchased by Dr. Peter Rouse Cortelyou (1843-1902) for his son, Adrian Voorhees Cortelyou (1876-1956) circa 1901. After a fire in the 1920s, it was remodeled to its present two-story Colonial Revival/Georgian appearance. Dr. Cortelyou came to Georgia from Brooklyn, New York, in 1879 to treat a lung condition and became one of the most renowned physicians of his time in the Southeast. Adrian Cortelyou was best known as the vice-president of the Georgia Marble Company. The house remains in the family to this day.

Church Street-Cherokee Street Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Eclectic Cottage, 1908, Marietta

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A charming white house with a front porch, featuring large pillars, potted plants, and a welcoming front door adorned with a wreath. The landscaped yard includes neatly trimmed shrubs and a stone walkway leading to the entrance.

Eclectic architecture runs the gamut of styles, and this is a good example. It has Victorian and Classical elements but overall is reminiscent of the New South Cottage type, as identified by the Georgia Historic Preservation Division in their definitive 1991 handbook, Georgia’s Living Places: Historic Houses in Their Landscaped Settings.

Whitlock Avenue Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Georgian House, 1934, Marietta

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A two-story red brick house with white shutters and a green door, surrounded by neatly trimmed shrubs and a brick pathway, framed by trees in a lush green landscape.

I wasn’t able to locate a history for this house, but I love the Georgian style and couldn’t resist making a photograph. Georgian, of course, refers not to our state, but to the four British monarchs of the House of Hanover named George. And it’s also not the same as the Georgian cottage style so common in the state.

Whitlock Avenue Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Reid House, Marietta

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A two-story white colonial-style house with a red front door, adorned with black shutters, and an American flag displayed at the entrance, surrounded by greenery and shrubs under a clear blue sky.

This Dutch Colonial Revival cottage has been identified as the “Reid House” in the National Register of Historic Places because it was built using a design of the prominent Georgia architect Neel Reid. Real estate listings date it to 1962.

Whitlock Avenue Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Dobbs-Smith-Dosser House, Circa 1900, Marietta

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The Whitlock Inn in Marietta, Georgia, with a front porch surrounded by green shrubs and a well-manicured lawn under a blue sky.

This beautifully maintained landmark is known as the Whitlock Inn today, and the following history is shared from their website. “In the 1890s, the M.G. Whitlock House, the famous 150 room Marietta resort, burned to the ground. It had been a popular showplace for tourists taking the train from the hot coastal towns, to the cooler foothills of Georgia. The resort occupied nearly the whole block of Whitlock Avenue. In 1900, part of the land was purchased by Herbert C. Dobbs (1867-1939) and his wife Annie (1870-1961) where the built a Victorian mansion for their family of eight. Since then, the Whitlock Inn has served as a beloved family home, senior citizen center, bed & breakfast, and today, an award winning event facility.”

Whitlock Avenue Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Glover-Blair-Anderson-Edwards House, Circa 1851, Marietta

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A large historic house with a beige exterior, green shutters, and a decorative porch surrounded by trees and landscaped gardens.

This house was built in the Greek Revival style circa 1851 for John Heyward Glover, Jr, most likely with the labor of enslaved people. It was restored and given its present Victorian appearance after a fire in the 1870s. Another fire in the 1930s destroyed the second floor and it was redesigned, with an altered roofline, by architect Montgomery Anderson.

John Heyward Glover, Jr. (1816-1859), originally a South Carolina rice planter, became a prominent local entrepreneur in Marietta, serving as its first mayor in 1852. He was instrumental in several early businesses in town, including a tannery and bank, with interest in a telegraph company.

Whitlock Avenue Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Anderson-Fowler-Edwards House, Circa 1900, Marietta

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A large, historic white Victorian mansion with a rounded front porch, decorative columns, and manicured bushes in the foreground. The house features multiple windows and a steep roof under a clear blue sky.

James Thomas Anderson (1866-1949), who constructed this house in 1900, was the wealthiest man in Cobb County at the time and the property is a significant example of early 20th-century revivalist architecture within the Whitlock Avenue Historic District. His son, James Thomas Anderson, Jr., was instrumental in the establishment of Cobb Landmarks and this house served for many years as its headquarters.

Whitlock Avenue Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Monticello Landmark Lost to Fire

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The Jordan-Lanier House in Monticello, Georgia, featuring prominent columns, set against a clear blue sky, with landscaped greenery in the foreground.

I first published this photograph (above) of Monticello’s Jordan-Lanier House in 2015. It was a well-known landmark just off the square downtown, though I never learned much about its history. I was saddened to get a message from my friend Aubrey Newby yesterday, noting that it was lost to fire on 11 May. As you can see from Aubrey’s photograph (below), nothing survived but the chimneys and the columns which defined the house. I don’t know any details about the fire, but wanted to share this news.

Ruins of the Jordan-Lanier House in Monticello, Georgia with standing columns and a chimney, surrounded by vegetation and a yellow caution tape.
Ruins of the Jordan-Lanier House, Monticello, Georgia. © Aubrey Newby

Monticello Historic District, National Register of Historic Places

Hendrix High School, Dodge County

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Abandoned brick school house in Dodge County, Georgia, surrounded by overgrown vegetation and trees under a clear blue sky.

Someone from Dodge County recently reached out to me about documenting this historic school, located east of Eastman on Georgia Highway 46, and I was able to get a photograph of the side of the building. They identified it as the old Hendrix High School and stated it closed in 1957 when the Dodge County High School was built. It was possibly a comprehensive school, with all grades. That’s all I know for now. Rural schools were the norm until school consolidation in the 1950s and 1960s and many survive throughout the state.

Lovely Grove Baptist Church, Dodge County

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A view of Lovely Grove Baptist church with a tall steeple, situated beside a curved road surrounded by greenery and blue sky.

Lovely Grove Baptist Church is a historic congregation in Dodge County. I haven’t been able to locate a history, but the earliest burial I found in the cemetery was circa 1866.